Samuel Johnson & the journey into words / / Lynda Mugglestone |
Autore | Mugglestone Lynda |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
Disciplina | 828.609 |
Soggetto topico | Language and languages in literature |
ISBN |
0-19-176009-9
0-19-166950-4 |
Classificazione | 18.05 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""List of figures""; ""1: Journeys into words""; ""Writing the world of words""; ""The journey as device""; ""2: Writing the Dictionary: Departures and destinations""; ""Planning the course""; ""Redirection: Writing the Plan of a Dictionary""; ""Departure and destinations: from Plan to 'Preface'""; ""3: 'Excursions into books': Documenting the new world of words""; ""The dictionary as collection""; ""Acts of reading""; ""Collections and canonicity""
""4: The ordered state: Power, authority, and the written word""""Order and the making of the Dictionary""; ""Order, power, and the problems of prescription""; ""Models of authority: Johnson, spelling, and the Dictionary""; ""5: Meaning, governance, andthe 'colours of words'""; ""Criticism and correctness: The dictionary-maker as judge""; ""Johnson's critical practice""; ""Doubt and the art of definition""; ""Reason and the 'colours of words'""; ""6: Defending the citadel, patrolling the borders""; ""Defending the citadel of words""; ""Writing French resistance"" ""Naturalization and the use of words""""Border crossings""; ""The end of toleration?""; ""7: History and the flux of time""; ""Writing the past""; ""Usage on the margins: Obsolescence""; ""Writing the present""; ""The lessons of history""; ""8: The praise of perfection""; ""The critics on the shore""; ""Appendix: 1755-73""; ""Notes""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Chapter 5""; ""Chapter 6""; ""Chapter 7""; ""Chapter 8""; ""Appendix""; ""References""; ""Primary sources""; ""Secondary sources""; ""Electronic resources""; ""Index"" |
Altri titoli varianti | Samuel Johnson and the journey into words |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797352203321 |
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Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Samuel Johnson & the journey into words / / Lynda Mugglestone |
Autore | Mugglestone Lynda |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
Disciplina | 828.609 |
Soggetto topico | Language and languages in literature |
ISBN |
0-19-176009-9
0-19-166950-4 |
Classificazione | 18.05 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""List of figures""; ""1: Journeys into words""; ""Writing the world of words""; ""The journey as device""; ""2: Writing the Dictionary: Departures and destinations""; ""Planning the course""; ""Redirection: Writing the Plan of a Dictionary""; ""Departure and destinations: from Plan to 'Preface'""; ""3: 'Excursions into books': Documenting the new world of words""; ""The dictionary as collection""; ""Acts of reading""; ""Collections and canonicity""
""4: The ordered state: Power, authority, and the written word""""Order and the making of the Dictionary""; ""Order, power, and the problems of prescription""; ""Models of authority: Johnson, spelling, and the Dictionary""; ""5: Meaning, governance, andthe 'colours of words'""; ""Criticism and correctness: The dictionary-maker as judge""; ""Johnson's critical practice""; ""Doubt and the art of definition""; ""Reason and the 'colours of words'""; ""6: Defending the citadel, patrolling the borders""; ""Defending the citadel of words""; ""Writing French resistance"" ""Naturalization and the use of words""""Border crossings""; ""The end of toleration?""; ""7: History and the flux of time""; ""Writing the past""; ""Usage on the margins: Obsolescence""; ""Writing the present""; ""The lessons of history""; ""8: The praise of perfection""; ""The critics on the shore""; ""Appendix: 1755-73""; ""Notes""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Chapter 5""; ""Chapter 6""; ""Chapter 7""; ""Chapter 8""; ""Appendix""; ""References""; ""Primary sources""; ""Secondary sources""; ""Electronic resources""; ""Index"" |
Altri titoli varianti | Samuel Johnson and the journey into words |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813829703321 |
Mugglestone Lynda
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Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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